Word: pacificism
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A tree is "growing" in Pago Pago. Circling the sturdy redwood's trunk are writhing ancestral figures - slave, virginal taupou and high chief - and carved at canopy height are the words SAMOA MUAMUA LEATUA, God first in Samoa. Soaring above American Samoa's national museum and gallery, the sculpture - titled...
Tuala's tree sculpture was created as part of the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago during July and August. More than any other event, this festival (held every four years; the next will be in Honiara, Solomon Islands) has helped shape the region as an arc of...
It was fear of cultural amnesia - particularly of the region's traditional arts and crafts - that underlay the festival's inauguration in Suva, Fiji, in 1972. As "each and every one of our countries aspire to economic prosperity, we are all deeply conscious that the quality of life is what...
It wasn't pretty - a little more than a half-hour after the first line went down, two more transmission lines failed, after they sagged close to trees, followed by another 16 lines tripping. At that point, enough voltage had been lost that industrial customers started calling up First Energy...
For a nation that won its first Olympic gold medal in 1984, China's athletic ascent, like its economic growth, can only be described with superlatives. By 2004, the People's Republic was just four medals shy of the gold-medal harvest of the U.S. This time around, China could...